Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 144 The Poor Man

"Are you still willing to continue working here after I take over the coal mine?" Wang Weidong asked.

Cao Baolu and his wife couldn't answer Wang Weidong's question for a while.

As far as the two of them are concerned, of course they are willing to stay and continue working.

But I have to go back to the village to ask Shi Guozheng about this question. Shi Guozheng nodded before the two of them dared to stay and continue to work. If they shook their heads, they had to go back to the village and quit.

Wang Weidong looked at Cao Baolu, it was fine to cook and burn the boiler, but he must be the person Shi Guozheng and his son trusted most if he could keep the coal mine materials.

"Are you Shi Guozheng's relatives?" Wang Weidong asked.

Both Cao Baolu and his daughter-in-law smiled awkwardly and didn't answer, it's fine if they don't answer.

Wang Weidong walked out of the so-called cafeteria and walked along the corridor into the Datong room where the workers lived.

The door to the office was locked, and he could only come here.

In the house, bricks are used for the feet, and wooden boards are laid on top of the bricks as a bed. Two rows of wooden boards are laid from east to west in the north and south of the house. On the wooden boards are more than a dozen broken quilts. The original color cannot be seen.

Six people are sitting on the bed talking nonsense, either bragging or talking about women.Those who work the night shift have already gone down to the well. These people should be on the day shift.

The farmers in several nearby villages, who worked in the coal mine, went home after taking a shower.

"That kid is playing bullshit in front of me, how can I spoil him? When I go up, I hit him with an electric gun, which made his nose and mouth bleed!" A man with long hair and beard was spitting.

He is bragging about his glorious history of travel and travel.

In fact, these six people all have old hair, long beards and unshaven beards. If you don't look carefully, you can't tell their looks at all.There was a strange smell in the room, and there were ragged clothes on the four radiators, and the strange smell came from the clothes.

When I came up from the well, my clothes were all wet, so I put them on the heater to dry them, and I continued to wear them when I went down the well the next day.

Seeing a stranger walk in, the eyes of the six people were all focused on Wang Weidong.

"Your place? Are you Gaha's?" The person who was bragging asked in a bad tone.

He was bragging just now, and now he just happened to verify and show it in front of other people.

When Wang Weidong was thinking about how to answer this question, the man then asked, "Did you also work in the coal mine?"

"Yes, Shi Guozheng asked me to start working in December." Wang Weidong replied downhill.

While talking, he took out his cigarette case and smoked the six people in the room one by one.

"Universe, the smoke is not bad." Another person said while holding a cigarette.

Wang Weidong made a very serious mistake just now. When he answered the question, his tone was not strong enough, and he should not have smoked.

For many people, this attitude is not because he is cultivated or kind, but because he is soft and easy to bully.

Sure enough, the bragging person put the cigarette in his mouth, then stretched out his hand and said, "One more!"

Wang Weidong smiled and handed him another one. Seeing that someone succeeded, the other five people also stretched out their hands to continue asking for cigarettes.

Wang Weidong smoked again and looked around as if looking for a place to sleep.

"Did you come to work by yourself without a blanket?" asked a worker.

"No, my luggage will be delivered tomorrow." Wang Weidong replied.

The braggart immediately raised his arm, pointed at the luggage on the wooden board, stared and said, "I tell you, you can't sleep without someone's luggage! They went down to work in the well, if they come back tomorrow morning and see you sleeping Their luggage will have to cut you!"

"I don't sleep with their luggage, just lie on the wooden plank for the night." Wang Weidong replied.

He moved two bricks from under the board and put them on top of the board as pillows, then put the cotton hat on the bricks, climbed onto the board and lay down.

Seeing Wang Weidong's pitiful appearance, the six of them all laughed.

"People who come to work in the coal mine and still wear clothes look like dogs. Who am I? I'm not used to anyone!" The bragging worker said triumphantly.

At this moment, the child who was picking up coal on the gangue pile timidly walked into the house.

"Why did you come back? Get me a tank of boiling water in the boiler room!" said a worker holding a large tea mug.

"Give me a tank too!"

"Give me a tank too!"

Four or five workers took out their tea mugs and said.

The child ran out with a big tea mug in one hand, and after a while came back cautiously with two full pots of boiling water. After putting it down, he ran out again with two tea mugs.

After finishing the work, the child walked to the board and found that there was a person lying on the board without a quilt.

There were four radiators in the room. When Wang Weidong first lay down, the temperature in the room was still very high. Wang Weidong fell asleep after lying down for a while.

Cao Baolu, who built the boiler, suppressed the fire of the boiler with coal before nine o'clock in the evening and went back to the village with his wife.The heater gradually cooled down, and the temperature in the room also dropped. After another two hours, Wang Weidong woke up from the cold.

The lights had already been turned off, and Wang Weidong couldn't help shivering from the cold.

Suddenly, half of the quilt covered his body, and Wang Weidong suddenly turned his head and saw two shining eyes looking at him.

"We each cover half of it," said the child.

Wang Weidong didn't speak. Although there was no mattress, the quilt would not be so cold, but Wang Weidong couldn't fall asleep anymore, because the quilt gave off a coquettish smell, so he couldn't fall asleep at all.

Finally, after five o'clock in the morning, Wang Weidong got up and walked outside the house to move his body in the cold wind and breathe the dry, cold and fresh air.

Cao Baolu and his daughter-in-law have already arrived at the coal mine, turned on the boiler again to boil water, and in two hours the workers will have to take a bath in the well. Cao Baolu’s daughter-in-law is washing a large pot of potatoes. For meals, each one can be eaten, and the potatoes that go into the pot for each meal cost about ten catties. Although there is no need to peel them, it takes a long time to wash them twice.

Cao Baolu walked into the cafeteria and looked down at the potato-washing wife with a smile and said, "That Wang, who slept on the wooden board like that last night without a quilt, might have been frozen and crooked!"

"Can such a person contract a coal mine?" Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law asked wonderingly.

In her impression, no one with money and status can endure hardships. Shi Guozheng did not suffer less when he was young, but later he directed others to work with his little hands behind his back. He himself never even touched the handle of a hoe. Some people volunteered to cook the vegetables grown in the front and rear gardens for him.

Such a person looks like a person of status. Isn't a person of status just a person who orders others?But looking at Wang Weidong's appearance, he doesn't look like him at all.

"Turtle, in the future he will contract this coal mine, not to mention Shi Guozheng, even these workers can play with him to death!" Cao Baolu said gloatingly.

(End of this chapter)